In addition to radially branching patterns called "spiders," which had been detected by an earlier Mars orbiter, other intriguing ground textures in the area appear in the new images. THEMIS investigates what causes auroras in the Earth's atmosphere to dramatically change from slowly shimmering waves of light to wildly shifting streaks of color. Its payload includes three co-aligned nadir-viewing instruments: (1) the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP, pronounced the same as calliope) to provide vertical profiles of aerosol and cloud backscatter and depolarization; (2) an Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR) with three channels in the infrared window region optimized for retrievals of cirrus particle size; and (3) the Wide Field Camera (WFC), a moderate spatial resolution imager with one visible channel which provides meteorological context and a means to accurately register CALIPSO observations to those from MODIS on the Aqua satellite. on January 11 when it snapped the above image of An instrument on the spacecraft measured the abrupt slowdown of the solar wind that defines the termination shock. During that span, three Chandra observations clearly show the neutron star moving away from the center of the Puppis A supernova remnant, a stellar debris field created during the same explosion in which the neutron star was created about 3700 years ago. Click on a picture and discover the cosmos! In 2007, the joint European/NASA solar polar mission Ulysses celebrated its 17th launch anniversary. NASAs six-ton (5.4-metric-ton) spacecraft Cassini continued its epic 6.7-year, 3.2-billion-km journey inside the planetary system of Saturn. Since its launch, WMAP has refined our understanding of the universe and its development. History. These large fires are about 10 kilometers northeast of the cities of Concepcin and Talcahuano, which are veiled by a smoke from the south. July 19, 2007. Get access to our automated daily newsletter, both of our premium newsletters and our premium news stories. The electrical level and Xenon fuel feed can be adjusted to throttle each engine up or down. On December 25, 2004, ESAs Huygens probe detached from the Cassini orbiter to begin a three-week journey to Saturns moon Titan. The ninth launch, a failure, was the second Falcon-1 rocket from SpaceX, with an USAF Demo payload. The multipoint spacecraft and dedicated ground observatories allowed researchers to track the development of the substorm via a proof-of-concept study demonstrating novel techniques that will be used throughout the course of the mission. Global Exploration Strategy (GES): In May, fourteen space agencies interested in working together on space exploration, met in Italy at the 11th Century Abbey of Spineto near Sarteano (Siena), and signed the Global Exploration Strategy, to determine, on a voluntary basis for each member, how NASAs Vision for Space Exploration, mandated by President George W. Bush in January 2004, Europes Aurora program, and similar initiatives in Russia, China, India, Japan and elsewhere can be melded into a cohesive global effort. Scientists are taking this opportunity to study the outer boundary, known as the magnetopause, and determine how the Sun's plasma and magnetic energy couples into the Earth's environment. The second close pass of Venus changed the spacecraft's direction around the sun and decelerated it from 22.7 to 17.3 miles per second, placing MESSENGER on target for a flyby of Mercury in January 2008 for a critical gravity assist needed to keep the spacecraft on track for its March 2011 orbit insertion, to begin an unprecedented yearlong study of Mercury. The spacecraft trained most of its instruments on Venus during the upcoming encounter. Editor's Corner. Its differential radiometers measure, with unprecedented accuracy, the temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). The increased use of satellites for communications, observations, and through the GPS navigation and high-precision weapons targeting was and is of decisive importance for the military command structure. NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center. The work, done at KSC, included addition of a glass cockpit, a Global Positioning System (GPS) for landing and the Station-to-Shuttle Power Transfer System (SSPTS) which allows the Orbiter to draw power from the space station, enabling an extended stay for the mission,- 14 days in this case. central coma is so bright it saturates. The Bahamas As Seen From The International Space Station, Artemis I Orion Post-Flight Payload Processing Campos/Moonikin, NASA OIG Report: NASAs Partnerships with International Space Agencies for the Artemis Campaign, Free newsletter plus website article access. According to NASA's website, the bluish tint is a result of sunlight scattered by air molecules.. Below is the famous image taken when the US last sent people to the moon, in 1972 on Apollo 17 . January 17. As the spacecraft lingered in Saturn's shadow, it viewed the planet's rings as never before, revealing . The Ozone Monitoring Instrument on the Aura satellite measures the total amount of ozone from the ground to the upper atmosphere over the entire Antarctic continent. On October 15, 2007, the Cassini spacecraft, in excellent health, had its Diamond Anniversary: it was ten years ago that it departed planet Earth from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and embarked on a seven-year long, circuitous journey of several billion miles across the solar system to the planet Saturn. S72-49079 ( 45k) Original artwork for the Apollo 17 insignia/patch. Your browser or your browser's settings are not supported. The data provide crucial new insights into the end of the "dark ages," when the first generation of stars began to shine. A service of: As with all channels in this region - including Mangala Valles - the flow is northward into the low elevation region south of Amazonis Mensa. A new test stand for rocket engines is being built at NASA's Stennis Space Center (SSC) in Mississippi. Scientists had suspected that exploding stars, or supernovae, were the primary source, but nobody had been able to demonstrate that they can create copious amounts of dust -- until now. The ACE spacecraft remains healthy, and a fuel use strategy has been implemented that will allow continued operations through the year 2022. Their data confirmed the existence of giant magnetic ropes and witnessed small explosions in the outskirts of Earth's magnetic field. A total of three Mercury flybys, each followed about two months later by a course correction maneuver, will put the spacecraft in position to enter Mercury orbit in March 2011. In 2005, almost 90 years after Albert Einstein first postulated his GR and after GP-B orbited Earth for more than 17 months, scientists finished collecting data. The mission is. CloudSat is an experimental mission conducted jointly by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to study the effects of clouds on climate and weather with capabilities 1,000 times more sensitive than typical weather radar, using millimeter-wavelength radar to measure the altitude and properties of clouds. Shockingly, these arcs were only . But it saw nothing smaller than Adrastea, a 16-kilometer-wide resident of Jupiter's faint ring system. The CloudSat Data Processing Center has distributed over 1,500,000 product files, totaling 100 terabytes of data to scientists in 47 different countries. During 2007, the spacecraft were in a coast phase collecting information about the interaction of the solar wind and the Earths magnetic field. The launch returned Endeavour to active service after a three-year hiatus for major modifications. December 21, 2007: Two NASA Dryden F/A-18s flown by Gordon Fullerton and Nils Larson fly in tight formation Dec. 21, 2007 during Fullerton's final flight before his retirement. Tue 17 Jan 2023 11.55 EST Last modified on Tue 17 Jan 2023 15.41 . NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 17 January 2023: Andromeda Galaxy is simply riveting. Melroy and ISS Exp. january 31 2007 nasa picture. Each unit is movable in two axes to allow for migration of the spacecraft's center of mass during the mission. All 25 instruments on each spacecraft have been operating well ever since. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Astronomers then noticed what looked like a comet with a gargantuan tail. even in broad daylight by blocking out the Sun with your hand. During the 4th EVA, astronauts constructed solar array hinge stabilizers using strips of aluminum, a hole punch, a bolt connector and 66 feet of wire. One of the many diplomatic gifts presented to the Queen was a poster commemorating John Smith's voyage of discovery in 1607 using data from Landsat 7, MODIS, and EO-1. 2007 January 17. The Orion Crew Exploration Cehicle, which sits atop Ares I, is being built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Denver, put under contract in August 2006. Credit: SECCHI, STEREO, NRL, NASA. A few days later, spacecraft and instruments were brought back to normal operations. 16. The swap was done to mitigate the risk of loss of thermal control over the K-band antenna horn (and subsequent spurious K-band range signal) due to atomic oxygen exposure. Both Voyagers are still working, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Comet McNaught. CALIPSO provides the next generation of climate observations, including an advanced study of clouds and aerosols, drastically improving our ability to predict climate change and to study the air we breathe. The AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) satellite mission was launched on April 25 from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), Calif., on a Pegasus-XL launch vehicle to its orbit 600 km (373 miles) above Earth. The science data from GRACE consist of the inter-satellite range change measurements, and the accelerometer, GPS and attitude measurements from each satellite. In 2007, the U.S. launched eight civil science spacecraft (one less than in the previous year): THEMIS 1, THEMIS 2, THEMIS 3, THEMIS 4, THEMIS 5, AIM, Phoenix, and Dawn. The sharp vision of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys uncovered the speedy white dwarfs in the ancient globular star cluster NGC 6397, a dense swarm of hundreds of thousands of stars. NASA's Big 2022: Historic Moon Mission, Webb Telescope Images, More NASA approves development of NEO Surveyor for a launch no later than June 2028. The spacecraft scanned the popular star during its ongoing survey of the entire sky in UV light. The images were made into movie clips, providing new insight into the interaction of Mars' atmosphere and surface. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory show both galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centers, but the larger galaxy has a jet emanating from the vicinity of its black hole. No one is sure. A stellar black hole is formed from the collapse of the core of a massive star at the end of its life. Satellite images of Earth at night have been a curiosity for the public and a tool of fundamental research for at least 25 years. "The Moon will appear full for about 3 days around this time, from Thursday evening through Sunday morning," NASA's Solar System Exploration said . Fortunately, the storm abated, and on August 21, Opportunity resumed driving toward Victoria Crater in Mars' Meridiani Planum region and began descending into the crater in September. Microwave light seen by WMAP from when the universe was only 380,000 years old, shows that, at the time, neutrinos made up 10% of the universe, atoms 12%, dark matter 63%, photons 15%, and dark energy was negligible. Robert Nemiroff NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a mesmerizing snapshot of a young star cluster embedded in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The Voyager missions, now in their 31st year, continue their quest to push the bounds of space exploration. Its telescope has a basic design similar to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), but while HST views the sky in exquisite detail in a narrow field of view - like a grain of sand held at arm's length - GALEX is tailored to view hundreds of galaxies in each observation. Text Size. It represents an important step in an evolving process toward a comprehensive global approach. The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), launched on August 25, 1997, is positioned in a halo orbit around the first Langrangian libration point L1, where gravitational forces are in equilibrium. The Phoenix mission uses the Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander, built in 2000, but later administratively mothballed. A stunning image . Comet McNaught Spirit (MER-A) & Opportunity (MER-B). Known as 3C 321, the system contains two galaxies in orbit around each other. In contrast, estimates from WMAP data show the current universe consists of 4.6% percent atoms, 23% dark matter, 72% dark energy and less than 1 percent neutrinos. Consequently, main U.S. Air Force (USAF) attention in 2007 continued to be on addressing space acquisition problems such as the ones posed by the missile warning program SBIRS (Space Based Infrared System), eventually to replace the DSP-23 constellation, with some significant progress made. NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a riveting snapshot of the Andromeda Galaxy and the oxygen-emitting blue arcs that surround it. By end-2007, the twin Mars rovers were 46 months into missions originally planned to last three months. Images taken by a camera onboard the spacecraft revealed a series of eight propeller-shaped "wakes" in a thin belt of the outermost "A" ring, indicating the presence of corresponding moonlets. being swept away from the Sun by the Primary focus contin ues on GRB research, but about half the time is being spread among the other science areas. A third stunning IR image from Spitzer in 2007 were The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seemingly floating on a bed of feathers made from clouds of dust sweeping around the stars, swaddling them in a cushiony veil. On August 2, 2005, MESSENGER returned to Earth for a gravity boost. Atlantis, on its 28th mission, lifted off on June 8 at 7:38pm EDT on Mission ISS-13A, carrying the crew of Commander Rick Sturckow, Pilot Lee Archambault, Mission Specialists Jim Reilly, Patrick Forrester, Steven Swanson, John Danny Olivas, and FE Clay Anderson who replaced ISS Expedition 14/15 FE Sunita Williams. Observations include information about Earth radiation, sea and land surface temperature, atmospheric vertical temperature, water vapor, and ozone profiles in the troposphere and stratosphere. 1971. Not a good sign for NASA EDGE, but a small window of opportunity for the competition. A third major finding arising from the new WMAP data places tight constraints on the astonishing burst of growth in the first trillionth of a second of the universe, called inflation, when ripples in the very fabric of space may have been created. These data have now been officially incorporated into the NOAA National Weather Service operational weather forecasts. A neighboring galaxy of M-81, called Holmberg IX, of large fluffy bluish-white material, is practically invisible to the naked human eye but is illuminated brilliantly in GALEX 's wide UV eyes. Thus, it requires a large field of view, rather than high resolution, in order to efficiently perform the mission's surveys. Dawn's science instrument suite will measure elemental and mineral composition, shape, surface topography, and tectonic history, and will also seek water-bearing minerals. In 2007, at end-April, GALEX celebrated its fourth year in space with some of the "hottest" stars of the M81 spiral galaxy. The two solar-powered observatories with 3-axis-stabilization, each with a launch mass of 1,364 lbs (620 kilograms, including propellant), were developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and communicate with its Mission Operations Center via NASAs Deep Space Network. and Heliospheric Investigation, NASA Web Since its launch, it has provided the first global-scale view of the clouds over the entire 2007 Northern Hemisphere season with an unprecedented resolution of 5 km by 5 km and is nearing completion of observations in the Southern Hemisphere season. Voyager 2 then extended the planetary adventure when it flew by Uranus and Neptune, becoming the only spacecraft ever to visit these worlds. The black hole is part of a binary system in M33, a nearby galaxy about 3 million light years from Earth. The liquids are probably a combination of methane and ethane, given the conditions on Titan and the abundance of methane and ethane gases and clouds in Titan's atmosphere. Launched on August 4 on a Delta-2 from Florida, the Phoenix Mars mission is the first in NASA's Scout Program. It was launched on August 12, 2005, on an Atlas V launch vehicle and arrived at Mars on March 10, 2006, after a 300 million-mile trip, taking more than 35 hours to circle the planet in its initial very elongated (elliptic) orbit for subsequent aerobraking maneuvers to achieve a lower circular orbit. At the time of this posting, the cause of the fires was not known. STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). During the 2nd spacewalk, a 360-degree visual inspection of the stations starboard solar alpha rotary joint (SARJ) was added, which had shown increased friction for some time. The space agency adds that the satellite moves at the speed of about five miles (8 km) per second - which is fast enough to travel across the United States in about 10 minutes. The ring's discovery is among the strongest evidence yet that dark matter exists. RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellite had just opened up Opportunity had driven 11.7 kilometers (7.3 miles) and returned more than 94,000 images. Today's VIS image shows the complete length of two channels in northern Terra Sirenum. One focus concerns plans for shifting the advanced technology base toward space in order to continue building a new foundation for more integrated air and space operations in the 21st century as space is becoming increasingly dominant in military reconnaissance, communications, warning, navigation, missile defense and weather-related areas. The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists to determine why auroras are more common in the spring than at other times. From January through June, New Horizons seven science instruments made more than 700 separate observations of the Jovian system twice the activity planned at Pluto with most of them coming in the eight days around closest approach to Jupiter. Titan is the second largest moon in the solar system and is about 50 percent larger than Earth's moon. In visible-light images, two prominent arms emanating from the bright nucleus and spiraling outward, are dominated by young, bright stars, which light up the gas within the arms. By making accurate measurements of microwave patterns, WMAP has answered many longstanding questions about age, composition and development of the universe. Later, GOES-N is aimed at becoming the primary U.S. hurricane-monitoring spacecraft. This grouping of two test rovers and a flight spare provides a graphic comparison of three generations of Mars rovers developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. . Astronomers used Chandra to observe a neutron star, known as RX J0822-4300, over a period of about five years. George Michael on stage in Amsterdam in 2007. . According to NASA, it is located about 210,000 light-years away. AIM is expected to last two or more years during which time the instruments will monitor noctilucent clouds to better understand their variability and possible connection to climate change. Image of the Day Atmosphere Heat Land Water Human Presence Remote Sensing. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Follow this link to skip to the main content, Table 1. Docking at the station was on 6/10 at 3:36pm, and the station crew increased to ten occupants. NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. The engines are thrifty with fuel, using only about 3.25 milligrams of Xenon per second (about 10 ounces over 24 hours) at maximum thrust. Get access to our automated daily newsletter, select from one of one of our premium newsletters, and get our premium news stories. Four EVAs were conducted by Mastracchio, Williams and Exp. Nasa has collated Hubble's images, and selected one for each day of the year, so you can find one to match with your birthday By Jaymi McCann February 18, 2022 7:55 am (Updated February 18, 2022 . Ulysses carries a comprehensive suite of sophisticated scientific instruments, several of which are of a kind never flown in space before. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. But the new Hubble images revealed a rapid transformation in the shape and color of Jupiter's clouds near the equator, marking the entire face of the globe. Visible was a spectacular view of the Hubble was and is making discoveries at a rate that is unprecedented for a single observatory, and its contributions to astronomy and cosmology are wide-ranging. The thrusters work by using an electrical charge to accelerate ions from Xenon fuel to a speed 10 times that of chemical engines. Dawn uses ion propulsion for years at a time, with interruptions of only a few hours each week to turn to point its antenna to Earth. The orbiting telescope has become one of the most important instruments in the history of astronomy. 2023 Multiverse Media Inc. All right are reserved. This makes M33 X-7 the most massive stellar black hole known. 15 and FE Sunita Suni Williams swapped places to join the Atlantis crew. 04.17.15 - This . Last Month: January 2007: Next Month: Sun: Mon: Tue: Wed: Thu: Fri: Sat Last Month | Calendar | Next Month > Index | Search | Send Mail to APOD | Today's . After launch of NASA's THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) mission on February 17 on a Delta-2 rocket, the five THEMIS spacecraft were deployed into a string-of-pearls configuration on near-identical highly elliptical orbits with 31-hour periods. The farther it ventures from the sun, the colder the spacecraft becomes, but its heating capability is running out: Ulysses is powered by the decay of a radioactive isotope, and over its 17-plus years, the power has been steadily dropping. The year 2007 has been a roller coaster ride for the Swift mission. Phoenix will be the first mission to touch the planet's water-ice. By 6/15, Yurchikhin and Kotov got two of three lanes in both computers running after bepassing, with external cabling, what appeared to be a faulty power switch, and on 6/18, the Russian partners were able to demonstrate the stations ability to maintain attitude control, enabling the shuttles departure. Gravity Probe-B (GP-B) was a NASA mission to test two predictions of Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity (GR) using four spherical gyroscopes and a telescope, housed in a satellite orbiting 642 km (400 mi) above the Earth, measuring in a new way and with unprecedented accuracy two extraordinary effects predicted by the General Theory of Relativity (the second having never before been directly measured): (a) The geodetic effect - the amount by which the Earth warps the local spacetime in which it resides, (b) the frame-dragging effect - the amount by which the rotating Earth drags its local spacetime around with it. All major contracts for the Ares I rocket were awarded in 2007. Some scientists believe that our sun grew up in a crowded region like the Pleiades, before migrating to its present, more isolated home. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. The satellite flies in formation about 15 minutes behind Aqua. After the two satellites switched position, a special data collection campaign for the inter-satellite separation between about 70 km and about 170 km got underway. above image, while the Evert Elzinga/AFP/Getty Images. The mission continued to produce data at record levels. Carried into space on 6 October 1990 by the space shuttle Discovery (STS-41), the Ulysses spacecraft has already travelled an amazing 7 billion km and at this time is still going strong. Both spacecraft are part of a constellation of spacecraft called the "A-Train," including Aqua, Aura and PARASOL, dedicated to studying the Earths weather and environment, with CloudSat orbiting approximately one minute behind Aqua. The Observatory carries an 85-cm cryogenic telescope and three cryogenically cooled science instruments capable of performing imaging and spectroscopy in the 3.6 to 160 micron range. NASA Web February 2. By combining how far it has moved across the sky with its distance from Earth, astronomers determined the neutron star is moving at over 3 million miles per hour. As a result, GOES provide a constant vigil for the atmospheric "triggers" for severe weather conditions such as tornadoes, flash floods, hail storms, and hurricanes. NASA explains about the image, "On January 3, two space stations already illuminated by sunlight in low Earth orbit crossed this dark predawn sky. Before the undocking on 11/5 (5:32am EST) crew members transferred 2,020 lbs (916 kg) of equipment and scientific samples to the shuttle, including the metal shavings from the SARJ for engineers to study and try to determine the cause of resistance in the starboard rotary joint. Recorded during evening twilight on January 17, this view features the bright coma and gorgeous, sweeping tail of Comet McNaught (c/2006 P1) over Lake Horowhenua in Levin, a small town on New Zealand's North Island. and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI) instrument onboard the In fact, material blowing off Mira is forming a wake 13 light-years long, or about 20,000 times the average distance of Pluto from the sun. The massive, growing black holes, discovered by NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes, represent a large fraction of a long-sought missing population. By November, the orbiter had returned enough data to fill nearly 1,000 CD-ROMs. RT @IgnazioMagnani: Guadeloupe ! NASA's Swift satellite, launched on November 20, 2004 aboard a Delta-2 rocket from Cape Canaveral, was designed and built with international participation (England, Italy) to solve the 35-year-old mystery of the origin of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). They have increased in brightness over time, are being seen more often and appear to be occurring at lower latitudes than ever before. Both rovers have found metallic meteorites on Mars. altitude and 98.73 degrees inclination. After undocking on 8/19 (7:57am EDT), Endeavour landed on Runway 15 at KSC at 12:32 pm on the first opportunity after deorbit. GOES-N, to be renamed GOES-13, is the latest in a series of Earth monitoring satellites which provide the kind of continuous monitoring necessary for intensive data analysis. NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a riveting snapshot of the Andromeda Galaxy and blue gas arcs near it, which are thought to be oxygen-emitting arcs. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is Both satellites, operated by NOAA, in 2007 continued to provide global coverage of numerous atmospheric and surface parameters for weather forecasting and meteorological research. S71-51273 ( 102k or 668k) Portrait of Ron Evans. Earth's Southern Hemisphere In 2007, the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office, called for by the U.S. Congress in 2006, was created under the Dept. The gas arcs, shown in blue, were discovered and first confirmed by amateur astronomers just last year. Humankinds first mission to distant planet Pluto was launched by NASA on January 19, 2006, aboard an Atlas V rocket at 2 pm EST. To track the mysterious GRBs, Swift carries a suite of three main instruments: the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT), the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) and the UltraViolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT). This information is providing the first global measurements of cloud properties that will help scientists compile a database of cloud measurements, aiding in global climate and weather prediction models. This is because the ion propulsion system will operate for thousands of days, instead of the minutes during which the Delta performs. This tied the record for Mars data sent back between 1997 and 2006 by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) mission: about 30 terabits of science data, including more than 15,000 images from three cameras, more than 3,000 targeted observations by a mineral-mapping spectrometer, and more than 2,200 observations with ground-penetrating radar. Throughout its eighth year of operation, Chandra continued to provide scientists with views of the high-energy universe never seen before which potentially revolutionize astronomical and cosmological concepts. Due to failure of the valves that control gas flow through the instrument, active control of SEPICAs proportional counter is no longer possible. By combining data from Chandra and the Gemini telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the mass of the black hole, known as M33 X-7, was determined to be 15.7 times that of the Sun. 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